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Mortgage company suspends foreclosure on former KC mayor's home

The James B. Nutter Mortgage Company said it is suspending foreclosure proceedings against former Kansas City Mayor Charles Wheeler.

Nutter officials said Wheeler's Country Club District home on West 53rd Street was scheduled to be auctioned off on the Jackson County Courthouse steps at 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

The company told KMBC's Micheal Mahoney that Wheeler owes the firm more than $40,000 in back taxes and insurance, going back several years.

Wheeler told Mahoney on Monday that he intends to leave his residence and move to another place in the Waldo area in three months.

"The best thing for Charles to do is find a place to live that is smaller, more manageable and more affordable. We just ask that, after years of promises, Charlie give us his word, in writing, that he will be moved and settled in a new location by July 2013," according to a statement released by the owner, James B. Nutter.

Nutter has been a longtime political supporter of Wheeler. Wheeler was the mayor of Kansas City in the 1970s. He also served in the Missouri State Senate several years ago.

"We have done everything we could, for the longest time, to help Charlie Wheeler keep his home. It is sad, but years of nonpayment of property taxes as required by law, makes it difficult for us to help him anymore," said Nutter.

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